Samarkandskīĭ kuficheskīĭ Koran, po predanīi︠u︡ pisannyĭ sobstvennoruchno tretʹim khalifom Osmanom (644-656) i nakhodi︠a︡shchīĭsi︠a︡ v Imperatorskoĭ S-Peterburgskoĭ publichnoĭ biblīoteki︠e︡
By: izdano pri S-Peterburgskom arkheologicheskom institut S. Iv. Pisarevym (faksimile) = Coran coufique de Samarcand, écrit d'après la tradition de la propre main du troisième calife Osman (644-656) qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Petersbourg ...
Contributors: Imperatorskai͡a publichnai͡a biblīoteka (Saint Petersburg, Russia); Arkheologicheskiĭ institut (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Publisher: par S. Pissaref
Published: 1905
Place of publication: St. Petersbourg
Language: rus
Number of pages: 706
Subjects: Facsimiles; Paleography, Arabic (Cufic); Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Other titles: Coran coufique de Samarcand
Work titles: Qurʼan
Notes: Illuminated.

One of an edition of 50 copies.

The "Tashkent copy" of the first official Koran in book form was taken from Damascus to Samarqand by Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405). When Samarqand (in modern day Uzbekistan) was absorbed into Tsarist Russia, the copy was taken to Saint Petersburg. General Ali Akbar Topchibashi retrieved the copy and sent it to Tashkent, where it remains. While the copy was in Saint Petersburg, one of the Tsars ordered made a facsimile of the "Samarqand Cufic (script) Koran," with a printing of circa fifty copies.

Rare Book copy: Described in: Shalem, Avinoam. "On Original and “Originals”: The “Copy” of the Tashkent Qurʾān Codex in the Rare Collection Books at the Butler Library." Philological Encounters 5.3 (2020): 282-307.

Rare Book copy: Described in: Mendelsohn, Isaac. "The Columbia University Copy of the Samarqand Kufic Qur’an." The Muslim World, 30, no. 4 (1940): 375-78.

Text in Arabic, title page in Russian and French.